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It’s Nice Up North

Wednesday, October 19th, 2011 Posted in Photography, Railways, Travel, Trip Report | 9 Comments »

Two of the most popular posts on this blog were my reports of riding the Kyle of Lochalsh and West Highland railway lines. More than just popular on the blog, the trips themselves were fun. Tiring, perhaps, but certainly worthwhile ...

Keep it Real … Represent

Tuesday, October 11th, 2011 Posted in Personal, Railways, Visa | No Comments »

Like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel, my life is moving on. I received a quite exciting letter at the weekend, from the US Consulate in London! Its contents were not very exciting, just "Fill ...

Worry not, content’s a-coming.

Tuesday, September 6th, 2011 Posted in Meta, Railways, Stub, Travel | No Comments »

I know that I've neglected this here blog for a while, a combination of not doing much and just general laziness. I do have some good news though, faithful reader (there must be at least one faithful reader, right?) Continuing in ...

Logging Nerdery

Tuesday, July 5th, 2011 Posted in Personal, Railways, Travel | 6 Comments »

I'm a travel nerd. I love to travel, which admittedly isn't nerdy, but how many people who love to travel log all of their flights down to the aircraft type and seat sat in? Probably not too many. To be ...

More trips I’ll never take

Monday, July 4th, 2011 Posted in Railways, Travel | 1 Comment »

So last summer, on a couple of my days off, I decided to take the train to Kyle of Lochalsh and Mallaig, taking the two most famously beautiful lines in Scotland. And they were certainly beautiful. Indeed, I'd say that ...